This practitioner’s guide explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community-based forest regimes. It is aimed at those taking up this challenge in developing countries. There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Rather, it involves taking advantage of opportunities that emerge in various institutional arenas such as policy and law-making and implementation, government administration, customary or community-based tenure governance, or forest restoration at the landscape scale.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2021Global
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2021Global
This resource accompanies Phase 1, Task 1, Step 1 of the Model Guidebook for Business Enterprises. It provides examples of business enterprise policies that tend to promote socially responsible investing and work toward ensuring the equitable sharing of investment benefits by women and men in affected communities. At every level of the supply chain, and at every step of the investment process, responsible policies will reflect best practices and international standards discussed in the guidebook.
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REVUE DE JURISPRUDENCE DE LA COUR SUPREME DU BURUNDI
Manuals & GuidelinesDecember, 2022BurundiThe Supreme Court of Burundi has just published a collection of land case law which constitutes volume 5 of the "Jurisprudence Review of the Supreme Court of Burundi". This collection was officially presented to the public on December 15, 2022.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesNovember, 2022Global
This manual aims to provide practical guidance on how communities can prepare for and decide whether to
support investments and is meant to be used along with the Introductory Guide for Communities, Governments and Investors. It has been written for all three RGIL countries, hoping that it will also be useful for other countries. -
Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesNovember, 2022Global
This manual aims to provide practical guidance for investors in incorporating responsible land-based investment principles into investor policies and practices and is meant to be used along with the Introductory Guide for Communities, Governments and Investors. It has been written for all three RGIL countries, hoping that it will also be useful for other countries.
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A manual for Governments
Manuals & GuidelinesNovember, 2022GlobalThis manual aims to provide practical guidance to Government staff at central and local level in promoting,facilitating and regulating responsible land-based investments and is meant to be used along with the Introductory Guide for Communities, Governments and Investors. It has been written for all three RGIL countries,hoping that it will also be useful for other countries.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesNovember, 2022Global
Significant land-based investments in agriculture and forestry are essential to meet growing global demand for food and to help counteract the likely impacts of climate change. Such investments can have a number of beneficial impacts, such as enhancing food security, generating foreign currency, improving natural resource manage-
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesFebruary, 2019Global
This document is intended to promote a disciplined approach to integrated closure planning and increase the uniformity of good practice across the sector. The concepts apply equally to both large and small mining companies.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesOctober, 2017Global
This guidance paper focuses on issues that the governments of developing countries may wish to consider if they adopt a policy to tax such transfers. In doing so, it examines and provides the language of the legislative and regulatory provisions employed by countries that have adopted such a policy to tax, and comments on the pros and cons of these provisions.
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Agricultural workers’ tenure rights
Manuals & GuidelinesAugust, 2021GlobalLand and labour rights can intersect in multiple ways. Investments in large-scale plantations often entail trade-offs between job creation and compressions of land rights. Also, labour relations can involve tenure dimensions, for example where estate managers sublet plots for workers to complement wages with food production for their family or local markets.
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